For a few thousand local students, the start of this week was a lot more exciting than usual.
Author Archives: Hannah E. Jones
Hannah Jones is a Georgia State University graduate, with a major in journalism and minor in public policy. She began studying journalism in high school and has since served as a reporter and editor for two newspapers. Hannah managed the Arts and Living section of The Signal, Georgia State’s independent award-winning newspaper. She has a passion for environmental issues, urban life and telling a good story. Hannah can be reached at hannah@saportareport.com.
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Keep it stylish, keep it green with Atlanta Sustainable Fashion Week
A stretch of the Eastside BeltLine trail was transformed from a walking trail into a runway as night fell on Wednesday, Oct. 19.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Delta’s $1 million grant to Agnes Scott, three local students sell charity tote bags, Indigenous Stickball Summit on BeltLine
This weekend, get in the spooky spirit a little early with the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade and Festival. Grab your costume — whether funny and fantastical or gory and frightening — and head to Little 5 Points for two days of festive creepiness including events like the Silver Scream Spook Show and the Rainy […]
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Woodruff Arts Center to host TEDWomen conference for next three years
The team was ready for a place to call their own, and Atlanta felt like the right match.
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Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, a zero-waste drop-off facility, comes to Decatur next year
In November, Live Thrive will break ground on its new zero-waste facility at 1225 Columbia Dr.
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Four tribal nations gather for Indigenous Stickball Summit on Atlanta BeltLine this weekend
Historically, the game has served as an alternative to war, a celebratory activity and type of recreation.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Atlanta welcomes new Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director, Emory Nursing receives $12 million to support health services, Atlanta to host ‘Historic Preservation Week’
This week, one of Atlanta’s universities and a top technology institute in the nation turns 137 years old. Georgia Tech was established in 1885 to bring the Industrial Revolution to Georgia, beginning with $65,000 in state funding and only 84 students. The university initially only offered mechanical engineering, but later expanded to include other disciplines, […]
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Goodwill North Georgia President & CEO reflects on last five years in role
For the last consecutive three years, the local Goodwill has been recognized as the top in the nation for connecting people to jobs.
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CITY CITÉ event explores how Atlanta’s built infrastructure can better support arts and culture
How will we ensure art and culture are prioritized in the cultural capital of the south?
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Chattahoochee RiverLands: A multi-generational effort to connect residents to the river
How can we better stitch the aquatic resource into the fabric of our city and metro area?
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Reporter’s Notebook: Casting director buys local historic farmhouse, Alliance Theatre becomes new host for Poetry Out Loud Competition, rock band shows Star Bar support
This week 98 years ago, former president Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Ga., for the first time, seeking solace from his polio complications. Roosevelt invested his own money into a treatment center, founding the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in 1927. He also built a home known as “The Little White House,” where […]
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Sara González Park: Of the community, for the community
The park was named and reinvigorated in memory of Sara J. González, a changemaker in the local Hispanic community.
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Meet Justin Cutler, Atlanta’s new Parks and Rec commissioner
Atlanta’s parks — tucked away amid a bustling city and expansive metro area — are one of its crowning jewels.
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Arabia Mountain: 50 years and 2,000+ acres later
Over the last few decades Arabia Mountain has become a landmark in metro Atlanta.
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Reporter’s Notebook: APS teacher wins Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl award, Atlanta Design Festival kicks off this weekend, “Railtalk-Re-Connect” at MARTA
Atlanta’s Bobby Jones became the first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam — the U.S. Amateur, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the British Amateur — 92 years ago this week. Jones learned to play at the East Lake Country Club, and from 1923 to 1930, he won thirteen major championships. On […]
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“Emergence”: Atlanta artist’s ode to city’s hidden waterways
For a landlocked city, Atlanta sure has a lot of water.
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Gwinnett County drafts roadmap to support local creatives, bolster art economy
In recent years, Georgia has become a prominent player on the national arts stage.
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“10 in America” — 10 cities, 10 films, one America
French artist Valerie Massadian wants to see Atlanta — really see it — in all its glory and hardship, its beauty and filth.
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Emory University’s new nursing learning center opens in Decatur
The ENLC features a Simulation and Skills Lab and an Innovation Hub.
